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receptionist/administrative assistant

senior administrative clerk

City of McAllen

I was hired as an auto mechanic. I took a pay cut and took a job as a mechanic. I worked my way
up to crew leader within a year and up to Fleet operations supervisor within 2 years of being
employed by the City of McAllen. There were several accidents that happened due to unsafe
working conditions and faulty equipment. Employees are treated with no respect if they do not
belong to their political side or their side as they call it. I believe in keeping my technicians
trained and up dated. This is not the case with Public works department.

I became ill in December of 2009. I could not take time off to see my family doctor. I was working
10-13 hours a day, 5 days a week and on Saturdays 8 hours. I complained to The HR Director and I
was suspended because there was nothing wrong with me and I did not want to work anymore. I had 6 weeks of vacation and about 2 months of sick leave and yet there was nothing wrong with me. I was
treated by my family doctor and refered to a Cardiologist. The cardiologist gave me a stress test
scheduled me for a radio active dye test and scheduled for the stent procedure. When I was at the
hospital for the stent prcedure. The cardiologist told me he could do nothing for me and told me
it had to be OPEN HEART surgery. I was told not to leave because I may not make it back to the hospital alive and if I did it would be with a heart attack or a stroke.

I went thru open heart surgery: Triple heart by pass. Public works and Human Resources are not
medical professionals to make medical evaluations. I was terminated 1 month after I returned from
my open heart surgery. I returned to work 7 week after my surgery. There are many former employees
that went through many, many injustices and labor violations.

I would not be writing this if I did not have the training and certifications and work history
that I have.

The city benefits are great:health, dental, and vision insurance. We rarely get raises, and if we do, there at 2-3% which is not enough to cover inflation. We rarely get bonuses.  My coworkers make the work fun and bearable. 

Management, however, made it almost impossible for us to ask for days off and constantly question us when we call in sick. Additionally, whenever lab results are slightly off, they will criticize us for running the analysis wrong instead of actually accepting the results as they are. If anything goes wrong, we are immediately at fault. 
 
There is limited room for growth. We have to take classes for our licenses. The issue with management is that they dont like to send us for the classes to renew or gain higher licenses. We try to stay on top of the hours needed and they say that it's not a priority. The pay is based off the licenses and not off of our years of experience or education level. 

Management absolutely refuses to help us whenever we are short-staffed and they try to blame us for it. That "we brought this on each other". They are considered working management, yet they sit by and ignore us when we need help on our heaviest workload days. 




I would either teach swim lesson in the morning or evening, sometimes both. Then guard regular pool hours. On the weekends there will be parties and sometimes I would have to work all day straight and then work a party at night. Management lacks the ability to lead their lifeguards. In general the whole staff is pretty close and that is why managers don't really care about the place. Some can even talk down to you if they feel like it. the hardest part of the job was the heat because we were are in the heat 24/7 there is no air conditioning and the refrigerators are the pools barely work. Besides all of that the best part of the job is getting to know the staff they are very friendly and fun to hang out with. since they are with each other most of the time, it is easy to always hang with them outside of the pool hours.

I worked closely with the Board Members of the Planning & Zoning Board and Board of Adjustments.  I emailed them the agenda's for the meetings and prepared the agenda books for their meetings.  Before the meetings would start I had a chance to get to know each and everyone. Most of my xco-workers were pleasant to work with and things would get crazy every other week.  The hardest part was when I had to take over in preparing for the meetings twice a month and the other administrative was out.  But the good thing was that I had a secretary that was willing to help with preparing agenda's and books while I took care of preparing for the meetings.  I have learned to work in a very fast pace and how to work in multitasks.  I always had deadlines every other week and always met them.

Planned,organized and managed the work subordination staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements. Directed activities related to dispatching, routing, or tracking transportation vehicles , such as Firetrucks, all police and city vehicles and garbage collection vehicles. Monitored operations to ensure that staff members comply with administrative policies and procedures , safety rules, environmental policies and government regulations. Served as contact person for all workers within assigned territories. And implemented schedules or policy changes for transportation services.

Operating the plant is very simple, some of the other workers know and understand what they are doing and are very helpful when you need them, on the other hand managment seems to think that whatever they say goes, and will change your schedule with little to no notice and expect you to be present at your rescheduled shift without you ever confirming you will be able to go or ever seing the message, as for the little to no notice it is understandable since other employees my be sick or have emergencies come up; but to expect me to come into a shift and say they don't need your confirmation for the schedule change they assigned to you makes no sense 

City of McAllen is a great place to work. Potential for advancement within the City's departments. Benefits are great, wellness program is a plus. Awesome training team and program. Loved to works for the city, get to know and work with people from different departments and serve the community. Some of the departments decisions are made by political overview instead of the department head. Department Directors and Deputies have very high expectations for their employees. Work is detail oriented and responsibility increases as you become more familiarized with your job.

My job as a Passport Agent was hectic and stressful. Dealing with the customers and helping them determine the process of obtaining a passport came with great satisfactions. The customers made it fun and enjoyable to work for the City of McAllen. The hardest part of my job was taking the passport photos for the little ones. Many times the children would cry and scream because they didn't want to take the pictures. At the end of the day with a lollipop in hand they would give us the opportunity to take the picture.The City of McAllen was a good place to work. The hours worked were too much for me and my family.

They are fast and very loose with the truth about what you will be doing. This position actually involved running the teen department as a one-person show. was expected to complete the other duties listed here as well as create teen programming, organize the summer reading program, and pay (yes, pay) out of pocket for supplies and materials.  There is little to no training, the culture is not too bad, coworkers can be pretty awesome, but management is both demanding and unresponsive.

Answering calls for service. Writing reports on a daily basis was also interesting and exciting for me. I was able to conduct preliminary investigations in automobile accidents as well as personal injury and civil proceedings. Began to meet a lot of people and worked with a diversity of people both on and off duty. Saw the different side of my city and began to understand a little more about the workplace and how it relates to the city.

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